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A night out in London that includes a hotel room, taxi fare, a
cocktail and dinner will set you back $518.01 on average, while
one in Hanoi, Vietnam’s capital city, costs only $141.12,
according to TripAdvisor’s latest edition of its TripIndex,
published yesterday.

A night in a four-star hotel costs on average $361.64 in the
Olympic host city compared to $84.89 in Hanoi, the most
affordable city in the list.
Tourists in Asia get the best deal for a night out. Hanoi, the
cheapest city in the list, is followed by Beijing in China
($159.05 for a night out) and Bangkok in Thailand ($161.90).

Budapest is the cheapest European destination on the list, where
it broke the top five. A night out in the Hungarian capital will
set you back $193.78 on average, making it slightly cheaper than
the next city on the list, Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia ($194.43).

European cities are the most expensive, with London coming in at
over five hundred dollars ($361.64 for accommodation and $82.61
for dinner), followed by Norwegian capital Oslo ($499.91), Zurich
in Switzerland ($485.82) and Paris.

A night out in Paris, which this week MasterCard forecast as the
second most popular city for tourists in the world after London,
costs a total of $480.76, broken down in the following way:
tourists shell out $306.71 on average for a room in a four-star
hotel, $15.06 for a taxi fare (for a 1.8-mile ride), $57.44 for a
cocktail for two in the bar of a five-star hotel and $101.55 for
dinner (two main courses and one bottle of wine).

In North America, popular tourist destination New York is the
most expensive city and sixth most expensive on the overall list
at $456.50 ($341.63 for accommodation, $15 for a cab ride, $32
for two cocktails and $67.87 for dinner), while Las Vegas offers
the best value at a total cost of $263.

The TripIndex compares the price of a night out in the most
popular tourist destinations around the world for the summer of
2012. The average costs mentioned cover two cocktails, dinner for
two at a restaurant, taxi fares and a night for two at a hotel.